
The Certified Product Owner course teaches a subset of topics, such as product ownership, Scrum Framework, and Agile Values. Participants will make a joint priority decision on which they agree on as most important, just like real-life Product Owners do every day.
This course is intended for anyone who will actively participate in a project using this approach. People on the edges of the project (secondary customers, management staff, and participants in related processes) will also benefit. Project teams are encouraged to attend as a group.
* = required for certification
* Product Ownership
- Your organization may encounter challenges to product ownership
- The Product Owner job has three main dimensions that make it a very large job for one person
* Opening
- The overall objectives of the course are listed
- The course materials include too much information for the time available. What shall we do?
* Scrum Planning
- Scrum planning is continuous
- Scrum planning happens at 5 levels, each with a different time horizon
- The Product Backlog is the primary source of work to be completed and value to be delivered
* Product Vision
- The Vision describes the purpose of the product to be created or enhanced
- There are several ways to present the vision as a common goal for the Scrum Team
- The Vision is the inspiration for the Product Backlog
Product Roadmap
- Roadmapping is a tool for creating a longer-term release strategy
- Roadmaps describe the product in very high-level terms
* User Stories
- User Stories are simple descriptions of desired functionality
- Stories are elaborated just-in-time for implementation
- Stories are used for planning
- The INVEST Criteria help us write good stories
* Prioritization
- Priorities help the Scrum Team decide what to do next
- Priorities help with long term planning
- Prioritization can be done in many ways, based on many criteria
Estimation
- Agile estimation is done at both the high level and the low level
- Estimates are used for planning and for tracking progress
- Estimates are done quickly, by the Development Team
- Estimates are not commitments
* Just in Time Elaboration
- Story elaboration is done just in time to reduce wasted time defining details that may never get used
- Details are provided to the Dev Team as conversations, acceptance criteria, and speclets
- Details may also lead to story splits
* Release Planning
- There are two basic product release strategies based on time and scope
- Risk is reduced by including slack in the plan
- Release tracking and forecasting are based on real data about actual products completed
FAQ/Parking Lot
- What questions remain?
Product Ownership Review
- The Product Owner is a navigator in the world of profit-making
- What skills would you look for in a Product Owner?
* Closing
- More information for Product Owners
- Wrapping up
* Agile Principles
- Agile software development implements Lean principles and dynamics
- The primary driver of Agile work is Value
- Scrum is one form of Agile, designed initially for software development, but applicable to other kinds of work
* Scrum Framework
- Scrum has 4 meetings and 3 artifacts
- Scrum has 3 roles that share the responsibility of creating value in small increments
- The roles complement each other to create a balanced team
Story Splitting
- Smaller stories are easier to work with and enhance the flow
- Smaller stories give us more options to reduce the scope
* Working with the Dev Team
- The Dev Team may propose stories for the Product Backlog
- Teams take time to mature
- The Dev Team is self-organizing
- Awareness of effective motivators can help build a high-performance team
Working with the ScrumMaster
- The ScrumMaster is your partner in achieving a smooth flow and continuous improvement
- The ScrumMaster is a productivity multiplier for the Team
Working with Stakeholders
- Customers are not your only Stakeholders
- You can’t please everyone all the time
Agile Testing
- Testing during the Sprint
- Agile testing practices
- Roles/responsibilities in testing:
* Scrum Meetings
- Scrum organizes work into 1-4 week time boxes called Sprints
- Each Sprint has 4 primary meetings
- The bulk of the time is spent creating value in the form of a product
* Product Backlog Management
- A well-managed Product Backlog keeps the Development Team running smoothly
- A 1-sprint look-ahead on stories will help the flow
- The Team needs details Just In Time
- Defining Ready and Done will dramatically reduce time waste
Electives
- Where Do Stories Come From?
- Agile Teams may build products faster than traditional methods can discover user needs
- There are a few more Agile methods for finding customer needs
Budget and Finance
- Budgeting relies on Release Planning
- Velocity is the primary unknown in budget requests
- Some organizations are moving to more Agile budgeting models
Scaling Scrum Up and Out
- Scrum can scale to many Teams
- Distributed Scrum is constrained by the laws of physics but there are patterns that can help
Portfolio Management
- Agile and Scrum concepts can be applied at the product portfolio level
Homework
- Read 2 articles
- Discuss one
Focus and Flow
- Scrum works best when the Team achieves a smooth flow of work
- Scrum dynamics are based on the mathematics of queuing theory that we use to manage the Internet
- Continuous improvement is an underlying goal of Scrum
Other Prioritization Tools
- Relative Weighting can be applied to Stories
- Financial Projection can be applied to Releases and Features
- Innovation Games can quickly get input from your customers
Action Plan (Private classes only)
- What concrete actions can we take to incorporate these concepts in our Scrum work?
- Anyone who will actively participate in a project using this approach
- People on the edges of the project (secondary customers, management staff, and participants in related processes) will also benefit.
- Project teams are encouraged to attend as a group.
- None
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